Background: The limited diagnostic accuracy of biomarkers in children at risk a serious bacterial infection (SBI) might be due to the imperfect reference standard SBI. We aimed evaluate performance new classification algorithm for biomarker discovery Methods: used data from five previously published, prospective observational studies, which included patients aged 0– <16 years: Alder Hey ...

BACKGROUND There is increased interest in combining nutritional modalities with pharmacological therapies for managing patients with diarrhea-predominant IBS (IBS-D). AIM A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the impact of oral serum-derived bovine immunoglobulin/protein isolate (SBI) on gastrointestinal symptom scores and quality of life (QoL) in subjects with IBS-...

Aims: This study was conducted to isolate, identify and screen microorganisms associated with soy iru for the ability to be used as starter in the fermentation of soya bean (Glycine max) to produce soy iru. Study Design: To control the fermentation of soya bean (Glycine max) to produce soya iru using functional starter culture in order to improve the quality of the product. Place and Duration o...

Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L) is a C4 plant, and it recently has emerged as model feedstock for biofuel production. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known key regulators in different biological processes plant including sugar accumulation. Despite bioinformatics analyses the discovery of miRNAs prediction targets recent years, little information available on expression mature candidate validation the...

Background Risky alcohol use can cause a range of negative consequences, including motor vehicle crashes, intimate partner violence, and medical conditions such as hypertension, gastritis, liver disease, and various cancers [1]. Alcohol use during pregnancy can result in miscarriage, stillbirth, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) [2,3]. Over thirty years of research has shown that alc...

Various mutant strains were used to examine the regulation and metabolic control of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) reductive pentose phosphate pathway in Rhodobacter capsulatus. Previously, a ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO)-deficient strain (strain SBI/II) was found to show enhanced levels of cbb(I) and cbb(II) promoter activities during photoheterotrophic growth in t...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop the Italian version of the Spanish Burnout Inventory (SBI) and to examine its psychometric properties within a sample of nursing staff. METHOD The study was cross-sectional and not randomized. The data were gathered using an anonymous, self-report questionnaire. The sample consisted of 391 staff nurses employed in three hospitals in the Northern ...

In 2006-2007 the Solar Bolometric Imager (SBI) will operate in the polar stratosphere where near-space conditions can be attained for 10 to 30 days. The instrument will provide bolometric (wavelength-integrated light) and color temperature images of the Sun. At the upcoming sunspot minimum, SBI observations will be able to detect subtle sources of solar irradiance variation with the least confu...

The alkylaluminum-complexed zirconocene trihydride cation [(SBI)Zr(μ-H)(3)(Al(i)Bu(2))(2)](+), which is obtained by reaction of (SBI)ZrCl(2) with [Ph(3)C][B(C(6)F(5))(4)] and excess HAl(i)Bu(2) in toluene solution, catalyzes the formation of isotactic polypropene when exposed to propene at -30 °C. This cation remains the sole observable species in catalyst systems free of AlMe compounds. In the...

From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University A lthough most febrile children aged <36 months have a self-limited viral infection that will resolve without treatment, a small proportion who are not obviously toxic will develop a serious bacterial infection (SBI), including bacteremia, meningitis, and urinary tract infection (UTI). How to best assess and man...